How exactly do water towers work?

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Is the water always up there?

How does the water get up there? I assume pumps but it all just doesn’t compute in my brain.

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You’ve got a lot of good answers to this already, so I’ll simply add that tanks on the ground that store water under pressure can accomplish the same thing as a water tower. Generally they will have a pocket of air trapped inside of them that compresses. These tanks are fed by a pump to supply the pressure. The downside to these is that they are more complicated than simply putting something up really high and relying on gravity. That’s the wonderful thing about gravity, gravity never breaks or requires maintenance.

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